Crossword-Solution: PURGATION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Purgation | n. | The act of purging; the act of clearing, cleansing, or putifying, by separating and carrying off impurities, or whatever is superfluous; the evacuation of the bowels. |
| Purgation | n. | The clearing of one's self from a crime of which one was publicly suspected and accused. It was either canonical, which was prescribed by the canon law, the form whereof used in the spiritual court was, that the person suspected take his oath that he was clear of the matter objected against him, and bring his honest neighbors with him to make oath that they believes he swore truly; or vulgar, which was by fire or water ordeal, or by combat. See Ordeal. |
We have 15 clues for the answer “PURGATION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Cleansing of the soul | 1 answer |
| act of purging or state of being purged | 1 answer |
| ____ filtration | 6 answers |
| depuration | 7 answers |
| purifying | 7 answers |
| lavation | 7 answers |
| catharsis | 14 answers |
| abortion | 18 answers |
| Penance | 19 answers |
| ABLUTION | 19 answers |
| streaming | 22 answers |
| CLEANING ___ | 25 answers |
| straining | 27 answers |
| Cleansing | 35 answers |
| Ending | 61 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAREE
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greedy person
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Sentences with PURGATION (5)
And therefore he must look about him and see who is valiant, who is high-minded, who is wise, who is wealthy; happy man, he is the enemy of them all, and must seek occasion against them whether he will or no, until he has made a purgation of the State.
What should a wicked man find better to do than to preserve his life so long as he may? Here is now a malefactor convicted of guilt, one who has burnt innocent men in their houses, and yet is allowed to undergo purgation.
Curdie allowed them half an hour to get to bed, and then set about completing his purgation of the palace.
With regard to the second, both parties were agreed in the belief of an intermediate state of purgation for the venial sins of the faithful; and whether their souls were purified by elemental fire was a doubtful point, which in a few years might be conveniently settled on the spot by the disputants.
Squaws at the time of menstrual purgation are obliged to seclude themselves, and in most instances to occupy isolated lodges, and in all tribes are forbidden to prepare food for anyone save themselves.
Quotes with PURGATION (3)
I had as yet no notion that life every now and then becomes literature — not for long, of course, but long enough to be what we best remember, and often enough so that what we eventually come to mean by life are those moments when life, instead of going sideways, backwards, forward, or nowhere at all, lines out straight, tense and inevitable, with a complication, climax, and, given some luck, a purgation, as if life had been made and not happened.
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
One thing is certain, whatever choices we make: we will not miss out on some critical purgation by seeking treatment for depression or any other form of physical suffering. If we are ripe for what the dark night brings, God will find a way to bring the process to fruition no matter how hard we try to avoid it.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2020).